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Driving leglisation changes affecting people with epilepsy

Submitted on Tuesday 5th June 2012

Published on Wednesday 6th June 2012

Current status: Closed

Closed: Thursday 6th June 2013

Signatures: 56

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Driving leglisation changes affecting people with epilepsy

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Proposed changes to legislation will potentially allow people who have epileptic seizures not affecting their consciousness to drive whilst still having seizures. It disregards other contributing factors, for example, concentration, reaction time, vision disturbance from hallucinations to constant blinking for seconds to minutes.

The legislation ultimitely enables the individual to decide on their suitability to drive, and if someone is determined to drive, all they have to do is lie about how their seizures affect them. The government needs to do its research into the 40 different seizure types, as it seems to have used a stereotypical (tonic-clonic) seizure upon which to base these changes.

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